Hate speech became such a problem whenever CBS News.com ran a news item about Barack Obama, the network has decided to turn off comments on Obama-related stories. (Maybe CBS can turn the comments back on and hire a comment monitor or two?)
When I first came across this, I immediately thought of the racist posts on AOL's 2008 Presidential Campaign message board. Dave Neiwert has some thoughts on this right-wing phenomenon:
A lot of it is building off memes that have been floating about the right for some time now: racism is a dead letter and doesn't really exist anymore, multiculturalism is a travesty, and efforts to defeat racism are racist themselves.
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